Blogging is Not Just About Making Posts, There’s Also the Marketing Side of it

If Only Blogging Were Easy…

What do you do when you’re not posting on your blog? Do you just sit back and relax while you wait for people to drop by and read your blog? Or do you continue to stay glued in front of your computer taking time to market your blog?

I find it really amusing that a lot of bloggers don’t bother promoting their blogs at all. They just create a blog, put in a couple of posts, and that’s it. And then they wonder why there aren’t a lot of people visiting their blogs.

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Looking Back at People Power 2, isn’t worth it?


Katulad ng sinabi ni CBCP President Angel Lagdameo, nakakadismaya kung muli nating aalalahanin kung ano ang nangyari sa People Power 2. Marahil dahil na rin sa mga nangyayaring ganito mula sa issue ng corruption sa gobyerno, mga red tape at mga di mapaliwanag na bayaran at suhulan sa mga kontrata ng mga transaction sa ibang bansa at pati dito sa atin. Kung iisipin natin nauulit na naman ang noong akala natin ay naputol na at nasugpong kultura ng katiwalian sa ating pamahalaan.

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Relevant Church’s Pastor Proposed 30 Day Sex Challenge

The Relevant Church’s Pastor Paul Wirth says he believes the “30 Day Sex Challenge” will help combat America’s rising divorce rate.

“We wanted to be able to help couples, both married and single, to really refocus their sex lives around what God’s principles are,” Wirth explained. Wirth says he came up with the idea because so many people have brought up the issue that they have “no time for sex”.

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Video: Bill Clinton & Obama Confronts Anti-Abortion Crowd

Anti-abortion hecklers disrupted the speeches of Pro-choice Clinton and Obama. See how they responded:
Video: Bill Clinton & Obama Confronts Anti-Abortion Crowd

Transcript:

“I gave you the answer. We disagree with you, you wanna criminalize women and their doctors and we disagree… I reduced abortion… Tell the truth, tell the truth… If you were really pro-life, if you were really pro-life, you would want to put every doctor and every mother as an accessory to murder in prison. And you won’t say you wanna do that because you know that because you know that you wouldn’t have a lick of political support.”

Video: Beauty Pageant for Pregnant Filipina

With over 4,800 babies born per day in the Philippines, what do you expect? Watch it here:
Video: Beauty Pageant for Pregnant Filipina

Pregnant candidates from Bataan danced while the crowd, which also included other pregnant mothers, roared.

“Evil” Ironies

Either Romulo Neri has become forgetful or he is still simmering the right label, perhaps beyond “evil”, that best befits GMA. When asked what is the adjective that describes Arroyo, Neri failed to summon the words from the deepest gorges of his rationality. It could have salvaged him from the media’s itch to scratch off the callous layer of executive privilege firmly wrapped around him. Or it could have bestowed upon him more of the administration’s grace, assuming he is willing to grovel before the golden touch of the queen. Or even more, it could have spurred the media into total frenzy. In any case, Neri seems more shy than before to face the inquisitive public.

Apparently, Neri has not only groveled before the golden touch of Arroyo. He literally walked with it. Yesterday, GMA and her minions paraded themselves through a ’solidarity walk’ with Neri beside his big boss in full flush of red. Which reminds me of Erap’s solidarity walk with his cabinet members at a time when the nation was on the verge of exploding. The only difference is that this time around we have Neri. We have Neri, we get someone whose amnesia or lack of words gets Arroyo’s mantle of support. Which goes without saying that the mantle is an obvious ploy to further preempt Neri from spilling more beans.

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Mortgage Engagement

My sister in law is moving and looking for the best mortgage deals that she can get.  She has the house picked out and now needs the best 30 fixed with no added cost. Good thing that i came across this site called Fool.co.uk – the best uk mortgage that can help her. So what seems to be the meaning of mortgage?

A mortgage is an essential financial service provider to the people of UK in respect to their housing needs. It is a business not only to make profits. Lenders must have good corporate and social responsibility. It is win,win business for the Lenders and their customers. The main types of mortgages for UK market are “Repayment” means each month you pay the interest plus some of the original loan/capital. As years go by the amount of loan outstanding reduces. This type is quite popular. Second is “Interest only” – means each month you pay back only the interest. The company loaning the money will normally ask for you to have a separate savings plan or investment plan to repay the original loan – but not always, some let you pay interest only and in 10, 25 years, or whatever the term, you can sell the property and pay back the loan, remortgage, etc. This type of loan has the lowest monthly outgoings … but your loan never reduces in value.

Look at Fool.co.uk – they have a number of ‘tools’ on their site that will provide you Mortgage quotes or Loan. Very competitive and excellent rates apply.

Will Popularity Help The ‘Idol’ Contestants?

Will popularity help popularity help the idol contestants or is it still the hometown pride which will prevail? Who will be the next American Idol?

Who’s the most popular among the top 24?

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Dallas Police Department Web site Hacked and Defaced by Russian hackers

The linked page at Fox News includes a representation (with vulgarities removed) of the texts that the hackers placed on the web page, beginning, “You, Americans, are really stupid if you can’t see that occurs in the world and in your own country!”

According to them the Russian hacker also posted a fabricated photograph showing American troops watching over four people lined up against a wall. 

“Each of the four prisoners had lines leading away from their faces to individual head shots of President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Sen. John McCain, according to Dallas-Fort Worth television station KTVT.”

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Castro’s Retirement, Bhutto’s Memoirs, Kosovo and an Erroneous Map

Fidel Castro, the iconic leader of the Cuban revolution, has just announced his retirement as Cuba’s president. During the almost 50 years of his rule, Castro oversaw major economic and social changes which favored the poor, including the introduction of land reform and the improvement of education and health services.

Also, I just learned that former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto submitted her memoir to HarperCollins only five days before her murder in December last year. The book is titled Reconciliation: Islam, Democracy and the West.

But it’s not all about endings. In another part of the world, Kosovo declared independence over the weekend and is set to be recognized by France, Germany and the United Kingdom. Check out Spiegel Online International’s photo gallery of Kosovo’s 18-year path to independence.

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